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OPERATION IDENTITY
LENDING LIBRARY

Operation Identity has assembled a library of adoption-related books, pamphlets, DVDs, video and audio tapes which are available for members to borrow. At the moment, the Lending Library is “homeless”—sitting in a number of boxes at the home of a member—and a selection of the available books is brought to each meeting. Previously, the Library was housed at The Serenity Shop; but when that store closed, the Library went into storage. We are actively looking for another home for the Library that would make our books more readily available for members to borrow.

Below is a list of all the items currently available in the Operation Identity Lending Library.

NON-FICTION BOOKS and NOVELS
(Where available, a link to the O.I. book review is provided)
TITLE AUTHOR
Admiral’s Daughter, The Victoria Fyodorova

Adopted Break Silence, The Jean M. Paton

Adopted Woman, An Katrina Maxtone-Graham

Adoptees Come of Age Ronlad Nydam

Adopting the Hurt Child Gregory Keck &Regina Kupecky

Adoption: The Facts, Feelings, and Issues of a Double Heritage Jeanne DuPrau

Adoption Agencies, Orphanages, and Maternity Homes Reg Niles

Adoption Awareness Jeanne Lindsay & Catherine Monserrat

Adoption, Current Issues and Trends Paul Sachdev

Adoption Dilemma, The Vincenette Scheppler

Adoption Experience, The Jerome Smith & Franklin Miroff

Adoption: A Handful of Hope Suzanne Arms

Adoption, Identify, and Kinship Katarina Wegar

Adoption in America Coming of Age Hal Aigner

Adoption Life Cycle, The Elinor Rosenberg

Adoption Nation Adam Pertman

Adoption Reader, The Susan Wadia-Ellis, ed.

Adoption Reunions Michelle McCalm

Adoption Reunion Handbook, The Liz Trinder, Julia Feast & David Howe

Adoption Reunion Survival Guide, The Julie Jarrell Bailey & Lynn Giddens

Adoption Resource Book, The Lois Gilman

Adoption Resource Book, The (Revised and Updated) Lois Gilman

Adoption Searchbook, The Mary Jo Rillera

Adoption Triangle, The Sorosky, Baran & Pannor

Adoptive Kinship H. David Kirk

Adoptive Wisdom Marlou Russell

Adoption Without Agencies Meezam, Katz & Russo

Andrew and Tobia J.I.M. Stewart

As If Kids Mattered Marlene Webber

Attaching in Adoption Deborah Gray

Beating the Adoption Game Cynthia Martin

Before Germana John Cerny & Gary J. Zimmerman

Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self Brodzinwky, Schecter & Marantz-Henig

Beneath a Tall Tree Jean Strauss

Brith Bond Judith Gediman & Linda Brown

Birthmark Lorraine Dusky

Birthmothers Merry Bloch Jones

Black Baby, White Hands Jaiya John

Canadian Adoption Guide, The Judith Wine

Can This Child Be Saved? Foster Cline & Cathy Helding

Child That Never Was, The Yvonne Kaye

Coffee Rings Yvonne Lehman

Complete Adoption Book, The Beauvais-Godwin & Godwin

Dalva Jim Harrison

Disturbing the Peace Nancy Newman

Dear Birth mother Kathleen Silber & Phyllis Speedlin

Death by Adoption JossShawyer

Death in White Bear Lake, A Barry Siegel

Faces of Adoption Lynn Giddens

Faint Trails Hal Aigner

Family Secrets David Leitch

For Every Man Other Poems Dolores H. Rios

Fostering Changes Richard Delaney

Finding Me in a Paper Bag Sally Howard

Finding My Father Rod McKuen

Gift Wrapped in Sorrow, The Jane Guttman

Go Out and Live Doris & Ken Hall

Great American Birth Rite, The William & Joanna Woolfolk

Guide to County Records on Microfilm (Missouri) James Kirkpatrick

Half Way Home! Contact & Reunion Guidelines Lynne-Claire Davis

Handbook for the Search Emma Vilardi

Handbook for Treatment of Attachment - Trauma Problems in Children Beverly James

Hand Me Down Leigh Bonheur

Healing the Adoption Experience Nancy Parkhill

Hearts Do Not Break Josephine Lawrence

How It Feels to be Adopted Jill Krementz

How to Find Your Past: A Search Handbook for Adoptees Carol Anne Gray

I Choose This Day Sharon Fieker

I Hope You Have a Good Life Campbell Armstrong

In the Best Interests of the Child Goldstein, Freud, Solnit & Goldstein

I Choose You Deborah Ripoli-Greulich

Imagining Adoption Marianne Novy, ed.

I’m Still Me Betty Jean Lifton

Infertility: Women Speak Out Renate Klein

Inheritance, The Tom Savage

In Search of Connection Nancy Sitterly

In Search of a Stranger Warren Siegmond

I Wish You Didn’t Know My Name Michele Launders & Penina Spiegel

I Would Have Searched Forever Sandra Kay Musser

Journey of the Adopted Self Betty Jean Lifton

Journeys After Adoption Jayne Schooler & Betsie Norris

Laura Z Laura Z. Hobson

A Limb of Your Tree Doris D. Smith

Lost & Found Betty Jean Lifton

Maurie Douglas Morrow

May the Circle be Unbroken Lynn Franklin

Looking for the Lost Bird Yvette Melanson

Man and His Mother, A Tim Green

Michel, Michel Robert Lewis

Mother Machine, The Gena Corea

Miracle Seekers, The Mary Martin Mason

Mommie Dearest Christina Crawford

Mommy Far, Mommy Near Carol Antoinette Peacock

Mothers-At-Risk Florence Haselkorn

Mother’s Story, A Mary Beth Whitehead

No Language But a Cry Richard D’Ambrosio

No More Here & There Ann Carney

Once Removed Wendie Redmond & Sherry Sleightholm

Orphan, The Chet House

Orphan, A True Story of Abandonment, Abuse, and Redemption Roger Dean Kiser, Sr.

Orphan Voyage Ruthena Hill Kittson (pseudonym of Jean Paton)

Other Mother, The Carol Schaefer

Out of My Tree Haywood Giles

Out of the Shadows Mary Martin Mason

Pick your Poison Leann Sweeney

Poppo Josef Berger

Post-Adoption Blues, The Karen Foli & John Thomspon

Psychology of Adoption, The David Brodzinsky & Marshall Schecter

Primal Wound, The Nancy Newton Verrier

Raising Adopted Children Lois Ruskai Melina

Reader’s Guide to Books on Post-Adoption Issues, The Michelle Carlini

Real Parents, Real Children Holly van Guiden & Lisa Barteis-Rabb

Reg Niles Searchbook for Adult Adoptees, The Reg Niles

Reunion: A Year in Letters Katie Hern & Ellen Gary Carlson

Search for Self Betty Jean Lifton

Sacred Bond, The Phyllis Chesler

Sacred Connections Mary Ann Koenig

Sea Chest, The Toni Buzzeo

Search Aftermath and Adjustments Patricia Sanders & Nancy Sitterly

Search for Anna Fisher, The Florence Fisher

Searching for a Past Jayne Schooler

Searching in California Patricia Sanders

Searching in Florida Diane C. Robie

Searching in Illinois Gayle Beckstead & Mary Lou Kozub

Searching in Indiana Mickey Dimon Carty

Searching in New York Kate Burke

Search, a Handbook for Adoptees and Birth parents Jayne Askin, with Bob Oskam

Secret Life of the Unborn Child, The Thomas Verny, M.D., with John Kelly

Shared Fate H. David Kirk

Shedding Light on the Dark Side of Adoption Marsha Riben

Single Square Picture, A Katy Robinson

Soul Connection Ann Hughes

Straight from the Kitchen (O.I. Cookbook) O.I. Members

Stranger Who Bore Me, The Karen March

Su Ann Doris Johnson

Sudden Fury Leslie Walker

Synchronicity & Reunion LaVonne Harper Stiffler

Tell Me My Name Mary Carter

Tennessee Tears George John Curtis

Thank you, Son, for Finding Me Beth Kane

Third Choice, The Leslie Foge & Gail Mosconi

To Prison with Love Sandy Musser

Tree Castle Island Jean Craighead George

Twice Born Betty Jean Lifton

Ultimate Search Book Lori Carangelo

Vietnamerica
Read the O.I. Review
Thomas Bass

Waiting to Forget Margaret Moorman

Wedding to Die For, A Leann Sweeney

Welcome Home: A Guide for Adoptive, Foster and Treatment Foster Parents Christopher Alexander

Welcome Home! An International and Nontraditional Adoption Reader Lita Linzer Schwartz & Florence Kaslow

What Now? Coping with Search, Contact & Reunion Mary Jo Rillera

When Summer’s in the Meadow Niall Williams & Christina Breen

Wuhu Diary Emily Prager

PAMPHLETS
TITLE PUBLISHER/AUTHOR
Pamphlets on Search American Adoption Congress

Adoption issues (Three) Randolph Severson

Booklets on various adoption issues (Nine) Concerned United Birthparents

Choices, Chances, Changes Concerned United Birthparents

Program Transcript (adoption reunion with 13 siblings) Dateline

How to Make Adoption an Affordable Option National Endowment for Financial Education

DVDs and VIDEOTAPES
TITLE SOURCE or DESCRIPTION
Broken Ties Debra Baker

Butterbox Babies, The

Cora Unashamed TV movie and 48 Hours program, Aug 2001, on Egg and Sperm Donors and Surrogate Custody Case

Dateline program on birth parents and birth daughter (reunion story on Faith Hill)

Daughter from DaNang PBS documentary on adopted daughter finding birth family in Vietnam

Deep End of the Ocean, The

Lost and Found (2003) Debra Baker video on birth mother and birth son

Lost and Found (2005) Debra Baker video on birth mother and birth son

Operation Identity interviews Channel 17

Secrets and Lies

Sixty Minutes program on adoption issues

Unlocking the Heart of Adoption Sheila Ganz

Without a Trace (episode of TV show with adoption issues)

Secret Daughter PBS documentary about June Cross

20/20 program about Vietnamese woman finding birth father and Loretta Young’s birth daughter